“It’s not about formations or tactics, if you don’t defend your 18-yard box and you don’t pick up people that are going into your 18-yard box, the likelihood is that they’re going to put the ball in your net.

“That’s basic, infantile defending.

“We’ll go back to the drawing board, we’ll go back to the training ground and we will see it through.”

He continued: “Being honest, footballers are fragile people with a fragile mentality but they need to man up.

“It’s a game of football and as soon as you go across that white line, you’ve got to be a determined animal.

“That means you’ve got to be aggressive because there’s points at stake and we need those points.

“Letting someone put the balls into your box cannot happen, not with the ease that we’ve been doing it at home.”

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